Kantian Ethics: A Support for Euthanasia with Extreme Dementia

Euthanasia: a soft paradigm for medical ethics.

A Kantian ethics approach to moral bioenhancement

It seems, at first glance, that a Kantian ethics approach to moral enhancement would tend towards the position that there could be no place for emotional modulation in any understanding of the endeavour, owing to the typically understood view that Kantian ethics does not allow any role for emotion in morality as a whole. It seems then that any account of moral bioenhancement which places emotio...

CLINICAL ETHICS Passive euthanasia

The idea of passive euthanasia has recently been attacked in a particularly clear and explicit way by an ‘‘Ethics Task Force’’ established by the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) in February 2001. It claims that the expression ‘‘passive euthanasia’’ is a contradiction in terms and hence that there can be no such thing. This paper critically assesses the main arguments for the Task...

a critical study of kantian secular ethics

each historical period contain a special conception about god, man and the world by which it is distinguished from the others. at the beginning of modernity, western man has accepted a new conception toward these problems. relation between ethics and religion within modernity, depend on such conception. while in the prior periods, especially in the middle age, ethics had been known to be depend...

Kantian Ethics And Jain Spiritual-Ethical Conducts

The name of Kant, a German philosopher (1724-1804) is immortal in the history of modern western Philosophy. Prime reason for this has been his simple life of abstinence and continuous ethical thinking. He lived a much disciplined life. He is believed to have practiced his routine life more strictly than the watch itself. From waking up in the morning to going to the bed at night, every minute o...